Sermon: The Discipline of Prayer
Sermon preached on Villa Morra Baptist Church on August 22, 2004, 19.00 (Regular church evening service) Text: (2) Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchfu...
Month: August 2004
Devotional – August 25, 2004
Thus says the Word of God: Great peace have those who love your law; nothing can make them stumble. (Psalm 119:165, ESV) It is commonplace to state that GodR...
Buddy, can you spare me a copy of Latex2HTML, please?
Yesterday I had to prepare a translation. It was a five-page sermon (in fact, more like a prep-talk) that was obviously a transcription of a speech, and obvious...
Caring for the sick, reloaded
You might have notice a total lack of activity here after Monday, and that’s for a reason. I’ve been swamped with work on Monday, Tuesday, and Wedne...
Caring for the sick
We had a nice weekend. I generally just tried to rest a while, and I managed to do so even though I had a rather large translation to do. What troubled me the m...
KDE 3.3 RC2
Last Tuesday, the KDE folks released KDE 3.3 Release Candidate 2 as a source-only release. Thankfully, the ever-helpful Jean-Christophe Fargette produced Slackw...
Devotional – August 11, 2004
Thus says the Word of God: I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as much as in all riches. (Psalms 119:14, KJV) We again enjoy the never ending riches ...
(Mostly) recovered, but…
Thankfully, after the strong bout of flu I got last weekend, I am starting to recover. The fever started receding Monday. On Tuesday I got back to the office (r...
An Idea Whose Time has Come
My fellow namesake Ed considered two weeks ago on his blog the question of ministering to geeks/coders. Almost immediately Josiah jumped in and called for a fre...
Grounded and with the flu
This was written yesterday: The weddings were miserable. I went to the reception for the civil weddings on Friday evening, and there were so many strangers I ha...
One Wedding and…
… simply too many funerals. The Office of the Attorney General found out that there were many duplicate entries in the list of casualties of the recent Yk...
Devotional – August 4, 2004
Thus says the Word of God: Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which was brought upon me, which the L...
Give me your hand…
Back in the day, when it was time to print out the invitations for our wedding ceremony, G. and I decided that we would not put a Bible verse on it. The verses ...
A view from Falujah
Rae has an insightful letter from a Marine who is on duty in Falujah. I remember reading somewhere that Michael Moore asked Bill O’Reilly, “Would yo...
Update on the Sunday tragedy
The tragedy of last Sunday keeps hurting deep into our society. There are simply too many people who are acquainted with, or are related to, some victim. Right ...
Tragedy in Asunción
I was told by Rev. S. that I should show up in church services a little bit more frequently, so I stayed there after teaching Sunday School. The service was the...